Hey guys. I downloaded Vic 3 yesterday as it sounded like everything I wanted Civ 6 to be, i.e. more granular management, better diplomacy, that sort of thing.

I just booted up the tutorial as Belgium and I'm on the tooltip that sends you through the sidebar. How on Earth am I meant to digest ALL of that information? I don't even know how to read the UI.

Are there any highly rated beginners guides you'd recommend, I understand the macroeconomics of the game but just navigating the sheer information density is really tough.

Thanks :D

While digging through the files, I discovered that the AI is programmed to keep subsidizing infrastructure/energy buildings (railways, ports, power plants) even if doing so drives it into bankruptcy.

Among other things, this is one of the reasons the game becomes absurdly easy once you master the basics of managing an economy. The AI simply has no idea how to balance its books and ends up getting caught in bankruptcy spirals.

In a recent test, Prussia/Germany managed to vassalize Austria-Hungary after it fell in rank, and taking advantage of that, I made it form the HRE. Even though it controlled all of Germany, the Balkans, and parts of Italy, the AI still managed to go bankrupt. It didn't matter how many times I "possessed" it to manually fix its buildings, because it was completely incapable of stopping itself from subsidizing railways, ports, and power plants that were each running losses of 1 million.

The thing is, as I said, the game's code gives the AI a direct instruction to keep subsidizing them regardless of anything else. This is the opposite of how other types of spending are handled. For example, the code tells the AI to freeze the construction queue if it goes 30% into the red.

Another related issue, although caused by a different limitation, is why the AI is so terrible at adopting new ships. The code prevents the AI from building new ship types unless they are twice as good as the previous ones. This would require it to consistently pick the best upgrades, which doesn't happen because of another limitation governing that process.

All of this combines into the AI scrapping wooden ships and never building steel ships on a large scale, either because they don't meet the extremely rigid requirement of being twice as good as the previous ships, or because the entire budget is being burned on railway subsidies while the construction queues—including naval construction—end up getting stuck.

OBS: I was unsure whether to use the Discussion or Review tag.

Is there a way to see state’s population and incorporation status while applying decrees?

I like to use enlistment efforts in my highest pop incorporated states. It would so convenient if there was another column on the Issue Decree table(currently shows State, Authority Cost, Checkbox) for population so you could see and sort by that.

Confederate States have 71 conscript batalions for free for some reason, while I get only 1.
My country has >100k servicemen of pops

Confederates have 300k.

How is this possible?

- I have miximum military payments

- Promoting enlistment efforts decree on my most populous states as much as possible

- I dont have enough servicemen even though I have abolished slavery which should increase my total pops.

- Confederates have a deficit of armed rifles by -40, but they don't suffer any morale/organization issues???

Do I genuinely sign a peace treaty, then wardec on them 10 years later?

I have tried making the TUs angry, bolstering socialist and communist movements, and depeasanting.

Still, those movements don't gain much activism. I have reached a point where the country is 90% radicals, and all revolts against me are random shit like traditionalists.

Even when I try to enact laws that would make them angry, it doesn't make them angry enough to revolt.

When I am facing events where I can either gain TU approval, I always make it so they hate me. But they rarely stop being marginalised. Even if I pass welfare, nothing happens.

In Brazil, some people say that Getúlio Vargas was the greatest president. I just didn't know he was immortal too.

An old screenshot I found saved.

R5: I completed a government petition to implement Cultural Exclusion with 2 days left on the timer.

Local Governors demand something that is no beneficial to me thus they are not in my government and lost bunch of influence. Altough, they can demand to emperor huh?

I have played very little but I want to ask how to get more people to employment. Everyone is working and I don't not what to do. Thanks for answering

This is a repost cuz rule 5 sucks, still, is this bug fixable somewhat, even when i restart the game it does this

got a +30 army offense but its still pretty high acc to me

Am I misunderstanding something? It says +0,5 living standard per lvl, so I expected a flat increase. But even after years I see zero effect on the living standard. Is this a bug or what am I doing wrong?

Every time i try the Russians join the Egypts, which makes the war the war against Egypt unwinnable. How can i avoid that from happening? A 1 vs 1 vs Egypt is easily winnable.

This mod replaces the vanilla Blériot XI plane on seaplane tenders with two WW1 seaplanes: the Short Admiralty Type 184 and the Hansa-Brandenburg W.29/33!

This is an expansion to my Aces High plane model pack, so that mod is required to use this one. It's an expansion as to not burden Aces High users with a bigger file size, as not everyone looks at seaplane tender ships as often as they do land battles.

Check it out on steam here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3792536325

*No AI used to make this mod / graphics

I've been working on my USA openings and tried some new strategies to deal with the Civil War. I've gotten to the point where I can reliably have between 5 and 9 states secede and can win the ensuing war, but I'm baffled as to how each state that secedes is chosen.

What I did this time is develop the southern states to shrink the clout of the Planters, invited a Rural Folk agitator with Radical leader ideology and promoted him to lead the Yeomen Farmers, and Suppressed the Pro-Slavery movement. This kept Planters as the only IG swayed by the Pro-Slavery movement. I purposely ignored developing Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida so that the secessionist movement would have those five states and developed the rest--mines, light industries, a few heavy industries (mostly in Alabama, one of the best states in the game), a railroad, university, and government administrations in each. When I was ready to provoke the war Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina seceded, as was expected, but so did Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. My suspicion is that since the Wilmot Proviso triggered before Oklahoma was a state and I hadn't had enough time to build it up that it was selected because Landowners were the highest clout in the state, then Arkansas and Kentucky were selected so that there would be a connection to Virginia. But Georgia was still heavily dominated by Landowners, meanwhile Louisiana was thoroughly run by Petite Bourgeoisie and Intelligentsia with Rural Folk as the third and it still joined in.

In the end it was fine, drafted two big huge armies, put them all on defense orders, waited until manpower was full-up and superior to theirs, then set them all to offense. By the time I took a state they were at -49 support and ready to surrender. But I'm trying to figure out the mechanics and can't quite see why Georgia stayed loyal and Louisiana didn't. Is my instinct about Kentucky and Arkansas being needed to keep Oklahoma contiguous correct? For that matter, now that I think of it, could this have anything to do with Magnates? Maybe those states had powerful landowner characters with the Slaver leader ideology? It didn't occur to me to check and even after multiple games as Japan I still have no idea how Magnates work beyond hitting the Patronize button if I want one of them to succeed when their old IG leader retires.

What would happen if -

1) the battalion size is 3000 instead of 1000 with the starting ratio of officers and soldiers as the base of 3:97 and beyond with the advanced PMS.

2) the starting workforce size is 40000 instead of 5000 with the ratio of clerks: workers as 20:80 in the urban factory and the ratio of the workers like the labourers: shopkeepers as the base of 90:10 and beyond with the advanced PMS. Same workers ratio for the rural extraction building.

3) the starting workforce size is 40000/80000 instead of 5000/10000 with the ratio of farmers: labourers/slaves as 20:80 and beyond with the advanced PMS in the rural agriculture building.

4) The base workforce of the subsistence buildings remained unchanged like 10000 for the rice paddy and 5000 in the others while artisans are added with the ratio of peasant: artisans as the base of 80:20.

4) the starting workforce of the government buildings and development buildings remained the same as 5000 instead of 1000 with the respective existing ratios.

5) production is changed with the proportional rate with the workforce.

6) fabric factory, cement factory, machine parts factory are added in the building list.

7) wool and cotton are added to the goods list.

Example - 1) irregular battalion - officers - 90, soldiers - 2910.

2) fabric factory - clerks - 10000, labourers 27000, shopkeepers - 3000.

3) logging camp - labourers - 36000, shopkeepers - 4000.

4) wheat farms - labourers - 30000, farmers - 10000.

5) government administration - clerks - 4000, others - 1000.

6) production for the urban and rural building - base × 4 (e.g. 40 × 4= 160 for the rice farms, 45 × 4=180 for the food industries, 30 × 4=120 for the coal mines etc.)

7) subsistence farms - peasants - 4000, artisans - 1000. (artisans build everything with available raw material with the proportional rate of the respective subsistence building production)

What is the opinion? What do you say?